10-letter words containing c, s, f
- cross-fire — lines of gunfire from two or more positions or combatants crossing one another, or a single one of such lines.
- cross-foot — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- crossfader — (music) A device consisting of two volume controls which control separate records, allowing the DJ to change the source of the sound between the records.
- crossfield — (in sport) across the field of play
- crossfires — Plural form of crossfire.
- crossruffs — Plural form of crossruff.
- crowd surf — to engage in crowd surfing.
- crowd-surf — to engage in crowd surfing.
- crucifixes — Plural form of crucifix.
- crushproof — unable to be crushed or creased
- cuneiforms — Plural form of cuneiform.
- cup fungus — any small, often brightly colored mushroom of the family Pezizaceae, characterized by a fruiting body resembling a cup.
- cuttlefish — A cuttlefish is a sea animal that has a soft body and a hard shell inside.
- declassify — If secret documents or records are declassified, it is officially stated that they are no longer secret.
- decrassify — to make (something) less crass
- deep focus — the focusing of a filmed scene so as to make near and distant objects equally clear.
- defalcates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defalcate.
- defeasance — the act or process of rendering null and void; annulment
- defections — Plural form of defection.
- defectives — Plural form of defective.
- defectless — a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection: a defect in an argument; a defect in a machine.
- deferences — Plural form of deference.
- defervesce — to undergo defervescence.
- deflectors — Plural form of deflector.
- disaffects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disaffect.
- dischuffed — (New Zealand, British, informal) Very displeased or unsatisfied.
- discomfits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discomfit.
- discomfort — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconfirm — to prove to be invalid.
- disfluency — Pathology. impairment of the ability to produce smooth, fluent speech.
- disfrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of disfrock.
- disinfects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disinfect.
- disulfuric — pyrosulfuric.
- doctorfish — a surgeonfish, especially Acanthurus chirurgus, of the West Indies, having a bluish body and black tail.
- dry fresco — fresco secco.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- dysfluency — disfluency.
- effectives — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effectless — having no effect; useless
- effervesce — to give off bubbles of gas, as fermenting liquors.
- efficacies — capacity for producing a desired result or effect; effectiveness: a remedy of great efficacy.
- effloresce — to burst into bloom; blossom.
- effluences — Plural form of effluence.
- fabricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fabricate.
- fabulistic — Being or resembling a fable.
- face flies — flies (musca autumnalis) that attack cattle, feeding off their eye secretions
- face-saver — something that saves one's prestige or dignity: Allow him the face-saver of resigning instead of being fired.
- facecloths — Plural form of facecloth.
- facelessly — Without a face or identity.
- faceplates — Plural form of faceplate.